An armed police officer walks past burning houses as firefighters battle the blaze set as part of a deadly ambush on Dec. 24 in Webster.

Written by

FREDERICK D. SMITH
Guest Essayist

The recent concern over the killings in Connecticut and in West Webster has sparked a large controversy over ways to prevent future events of this sort. Unfortunately no law will guarantee that it won't happen again.

The human race has existed for thousands of years and has been in constant violent turmoil for much of that time. For the United States (in my memory) this deadly race began in 1941. After that there was the Korean War and the Vietrnam War -- wars that pit humans against other humans -- on both sides there were men (and women) with families, suffering because many of these warriors ...